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Miyamoto Musashi The Book of Five Rings
"It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first."
"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way."
Soren Kierkegaard The Sickness Unto Death
"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."
"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things."
"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
"Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past."
"All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It?s my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I?ve won or lost. At sunrise, I?m out again, giving it the old try."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."